(N.B. The author at the end of this chapter stresses on Population explosion and advises the doctors to think in terms of global medicine. On page 221, he modifies Kipling’s quote like this:
..She keeps ten million serving men,
Who get no rest at all!
She sends ‘em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes-
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!)

Truth is incontrovertible
Panic may resent it
Ignorance may deride it
Malice may distort it
But here it is.

-Winston Churchill

In a sense, the victim shapes and moulds the criminal.

-Hans von Hentig

"Excellent," I cried. "Elementary", said he.

-Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930): ("The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" (1894) 'The Crooked Man'. The oft quoted "Elementary, my dear Watson" is not found in any book by Conan Doyle)

The problem isn’t with what we don’t know. The problem is with what we do know that isn’t so.

-Will Rogers. (Quoted at the beginning of the article “Shaken Baby Syndrome and Death of Matthew Eappen” by John Plunkett, M.D., in The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology”, Vol 20, Number 1, March 1999 at page 17)

You do the work in the daytime and cry at night!

-Clyde Snow (1928- ), forensic anthropologist, on his philosophy of life

I guess you can say law enforcement officials have come a long way since the days of Sherlock Holmes and his magnifying glass.

-Northumberland County District Attorney Robert Sacavage, at the conclusion of the Robert Auker murder trial (Quoted in “Hard Evidence” By David Fisher at page 381)

Dead Men tell tales!

-The title of Juergen Thorwald’s book (Published by Thames and Hudson, London, 1965)

(N.B. This interesting quote, although outwardly appearing as an antithesis to the quote preceding it, must be read in the proper context. Snyder follows up this interesting quote with the following qualifying remark: “How much they tell may be in direct proportion to the care, diligence and conscientious effort that the investigators and the laboratory technicians apply to the investigation. Sometimes the dead man actually becomes eloquent. As the science of homicide investigation advances, dead men will tell more and more.”)

Dead Men do tell tales!

-The title of William R. Maple’s (1937-1997), book (published by Doubleday, New York, 1994)

(N.B. Quite appropriately, this quote sets the matter right once again, by reiterating the earlier quote! Thus the wheel seems to have turned one full circle.)

Take nothing for granted because things are not always what they seem.

-LeMoyne Snyder in his book “Homicide Investigation”, (Third Edition, May 1977) Published by Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, USA, on page 141, in chapter 7 entitled “Homicide due to Gunshot Wounds”

A medicolegist must avoid talking too much, talking too soon and talking to the wrong persons.

-Anonymous

Fools and Wise men are equally harmless. Dangerous are those who are half foolish and half wise, and only see half of everything..